Mechanism operated by horses.



- PATEHTED AUG. 6, 1907 0. WADSWORTH. MECHANISM OPERATED BY'HORSES.

APPLICATION I'ILBD AUG-12, 1905.

a SHEETS-SHEET 1.

PATENTED AUG. 6, 1907.

No. 862,426. 0. E. WIADSWORTH.

MECHANISM OPERATED BY HORSES.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 12, 1905.

minus-SHEET 2.

mfnasaas [hz fnfar Z CZFSfF/LE WEds warZ/z I Afzarngu,

u WASHINGTON, n. c

PATENTED AUG. 6, 1907.

3 sums-sum a.

c. E. WADSWORTH. MECHANISM OPERATED BY HORSES.

APPLICATION-FILED AUG. 12, 1905.

THE NORRIS- Plrrnzs CHESTER E. WADSWORTH, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

MECHANISM OPERATED BY HORSES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1907.

Application filed August 12, 1905. Serial No. 273,862.

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, CHESTER E. WADSWORTH, of the city of Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new or Improved Mechanism Operated by Horses, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description or specification, reference being had to the annexed sheets of drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon.

My invention relates to improvements in mechanism operated by horse power adapted for the purpose of driving other machines. I obtain the aforesaid object of my invention by the mechanism illustrated in the annexed sheets of drawings of which Figure 1, is a front elevation of the entire machine. Fig. 2, is an end elevation looking in the direction of the arrow X, Fig. 1. Fig. 3, is a vertical section on a larger scale of that part of the machine to which the horses are attached, and showing ball bearings for carrying the operative parts of the mechanism. Fig. 4, is a plan of my horse power machine.

The shaft marked A, is the driving shaft. Upon this driving shaft are carried two wheels marked B, and C, respectively. Around these wheels B, and 0, respectively, driving belts D, and B, respectively, pass. These said belts D, and E, also pass over the driven pulleys F, and G, respectively, and are stretched sufficiently tight thereon that when rotative motion is imparted to the driving shaft A, the belts D, and E, are driven by the pulleys B, and O, and therefore rotate the pulleys F, and G. The pulleys F, and G, are carried at the upper and lower ends respectively, of the vertical shaft H, so that as the pulleys F, and G, are rotated, the driven shaft H, carried in suitable bearings at I, and .l, is correspondingly rotated. Upon the vertical shaft H, there is keyed or otherwise adjustably fixed or carried, the fly wheel K, from the periphery of which, or from a pulley on the vertical shaft H, a driving belt conveys rotary motion to the driven pulley of any machinery which it is intended to operate by my new or improved horse power driving mechanism. Upon the shaft A, which is carried in a combined footstep and roller bearing M, at the lower part, and in an ordinary bearing N, at its upper part, in a top beam forming part of a building or part of a framework as the case may be, there is carried that part of the mechanism P, by which the arms 0, O, for harnessing the horses to are carried. The inner ends of these arms 0, O, are placed within the sockets Q, Q, and are sufficiently long to project outward far enough for each horse to work round and round in succession upon the floor carried upon the beams R.

l This upper part P, attached to the shaft A, is provided with anti-friction rollers S, S,whicli when the horses rotate the machine, travel anti-frictionally in the roller paths, the upper part of which is in the under side of the head P, and the lower part of which is in the top of the support T.

From the preceding description of my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is obvious that continuous rotary motion of any required power, and at any required speed, for driving mechanism is obtainable by harnessing the horses to the arms 0, O, and by driving the horses round and round successively in a circle as is well understood.

For the purpose of regulating the speed given out by my new or improved horse power driving mechanism, I apply a regulating apparatus in the form of a brake, thereto. This consists of a brakeblock U, Figs. .1.-, and 4, attached to the sliding bar V, and carried in suitable horizontal bearings V, so that it may be capable of being slid horizontally backwards and forwards. At the rear end of the sliding part of this brake mechanism is a tensed spring W, which normally pulls the brake-block U, from bearing against the wheel B, with a tension which can be varied from time totime as required. To the sliding part carrying the brake-block U, there is attached a rope Y, which passes beneath and over the pulley K, and over another pulley Y at the opposite end of the mechanism, and there is another rope Y, which passes over the pulley K. The rope Y, and Y, hang vertically downwards and are provided at their ends with a handle as shown on the drawings which can be taken hold of and pulled downwards by the attendant or operator of the mechanism. The rope Y, at the righthand end of the machine passing as aforesaid over the pulley K, and connected directly to a pin Y, in

' the top of the sliding brake mechanism as shown at Fig.

1, so that a direct downward pull upon the rope Y, draws the brake-block U, against the rim of the pulley B, and thereby brakes or retards the rate of rotation, or stops the rotation of the pulley B, besides regulating the driving power given out by the pulley B. The rope Y, passes under the pulley K, being supported upon the carrying pulley Y and thence around the pulley Y The inner end of the rope Y, is also connected to the pin Y so that whether at the right or left hand end of the machine the operator or attendant has either handle Y, or Y, close at hand, by pulling either of which he can immediately press the brake-block U, against the pulley B, and regulate the driving power and speed of the machine, or stop it.

I claim as my invention.

The mechanism driven by horses and controlled by a brake operated by an attendant, consisting of a vertical rotated shaft, bearings for the upper and lower portions of said rotated shaft, the driving pulleys carried upon the 1 rotated shaft, the brake for regulating the speed and quantity of power given out for driving other machinery from the said rotated shaft, the spring for automatically holding the brake out of operation upon a driving pulley on the horse power shaft, the ropes and handles con- 10 nected to the sliding part of the brake for enabling the attendant to apply resistance to the motion of the horse power shaft and thereby to regulate the quantity of driving power transmitted to the driven shaft.

CHESTER E. WADSWORTH. Witnesses:

C. WORTH, WILLARD H. CLARK. 

